On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:58:02 -0400
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 2:48 AM Vladimir Botka <vbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:01:01 +0500
> > farrukh ahmed <farrukhahmed4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> > > *What I'm trying to achieve is that;*
> > > *1) Check if any job process is running.*
> > > *2) If the job process found running then; first stop the process and then
> > > remove the process.*  
> >
> > Use *pkill*
> > https://www.commandlinux.com/man-page/man1/pkill.1.html
> 
> pkill is a useful tool, and a dangerous one if other processes may
> have matching names. Use it cautiously.

Right. Probably it would be good to add that cautious usage here
includes running *pgrep* first and see whether the selected processes
are what you really want. This is the reason why *pgrep/pkill* come
together.

FWIW. See the playbook for testing asynchronous scripts and signals
https://gist.github.com/vbotka/755c3c4fea3d7afb54406412325a3f12


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Vladimir Botka

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